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Heat Continues for the East and South-Central U.S.; Strong to Severe Storms Across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast

The extremely dangerous heat wave continues across the East Coast and much of the South-Central U.S. today. Record high temperatures are expected for some areas especially across the Mid-Atlantic where extreme heat risk conditions reside. There is a Slight Risk (level 2 of 5) of severe thunderstorms today for the northern Mid-Atlantic into portions of southern New England. Read More >

SPC
ID #
Date Time
(CST)
Path
Length
(miles)
Path
Width
(yards)
F-Scale Killed Injured County Path
50-14 05/09/1950 2020 0.8 200 F1 0 0 Pontotoc 7 W Ada
70-1 04/18/1970 1610 5 50 F2 0 0 Pontotoc 3 SW Ada
70-47 10/07/1970 2330 0.5 100 F1 0 0 Pontotoc 5 S Ada
71-22 05/23/1971 1530 n/a n/a F0 0 0 Pontotoc 7 SW Ada
73-12 04/20/1973 0015 8 100 F3 0 21 Pontotoc W part of Ada
75-29 11/19/1975 1347 0.1 30 F1 0 0 Pontotoc 2 SW Ada
75-30 11/19/1975 1355 3 50 F2 0 0 Pontotoc 5 SW Ada
77-52 07/26/1977 0945 0.5 20 F? 0 0 Pontotoc Near Ada
82-2 03/15/1982 1757 6 60 F3 1 36 Pontotoc Ada - 6 NE Ada
83-47 05/13/1983 2330 0.1 50 F0 0 0 Pontotoc 2 NW Ada
85-7 03/26/1985 2212 0.1 5 F0 0 0 Pontotoc 3 W Ada
91-1 03/21/1991 1625 11 350 F3 0 2 Pontotoc 7 W Ada- Ada- 6 NNE Ada
91-2 03/21/1991 1630 5 175 F1 0 0 Pontotoc 2 SW Ada- Ada- 1 E Ada
94-3 04/02/1994 1909 0.1 20 F0 0 0 Pontotoc 3 S Ada
  05/20/2001 1751 0.3 25 F0 0 0 Pontotoc 7 S Ada
  05/15/2013 1734 0.5 50 EF0 0 0 Pontotoc 2 WNW Ada
  05/23/2015 1705 0.2 20 EF0 0 0 Pontotoc 2.5 ESE Ada
  03/26/2017 1814-1825 4 50 EF0 0 0 Pontotoc 4.5 ESE - 7 ESE Ada
  03/26/2017 1827-1828 0.3 30 EF0 0 0 Pontotoc 8 E Ada
  06/24/2018 1412 0.2 10 EF0 0 0 Pontotoc 4 ESE Ada
 

Records taken from the Storm Prediction Center archive data, "Storm Data", and data from the National Weather Service office in Norman. Data modified as described in NOAA Tech Memo NWS SR-209 (Speheger, D., 2001: "Corrections to the Historic Tornado Database").

Historic data, especially before 1950, are likely incomplete.